American Negro Poetry by Arna Bontemps

American Negro Poetry

Arna Bontemps

256 pages first pub 1963 (editions)

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With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), an important figure during and after the Harlem Renaissance, author of more than 25 novels, and longt...

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